Async in 2017 made easy

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Node.js ES2017 support

Node.js ES2017 support

To clarify, async/await is not yet finished. I'm working on fixing bugs and writing tests. If 53 branched today, we would not turn on the async/await flag on. I would not recommend using experimental features in production--they are often behind flags because they are not working 100% correctly.
-- @littledan